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There is a lady I see about town with hair down to mid calf. When I was a kid there was a little old lady that always had braids that she had wrapped in a bun. One day she came out of her house and I was surprised to see them down and past her waist. This woman also had dolls hanging from hooks on her walls.

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wolfy42 posted...

Lol, yeah that would be shitty.

If you knew how ill I have been this is a very high possibility.

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Nope but I have had a family member to die of an overdose and my brother in law is an alcoholic.

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Madonna has always been a nasty ol' sow.

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Dreaming_King posted...

So I rode my bike over to this little grocery store during my break at work to get some snacks and after an uneventful 3 minute ride lock up my bike in front. Some old crone comes up to me and says "You need to pay more attention to what you're doing, I nearly hit you back there" waving vaguely towards the parking lot with a nasty look on her face.

Taken slightly off guard I just asked what she was talking about but she ignored me and went into the store. That was her fatal mistake. If she had just explained herself I might have let it slide but ignoring me after a quip like that? I followed her in and said again louder, "So are you going to elaborate because I don't remember any close calls on the way here." She scoffed and I continued with my classic 180 attitude change "Are you sure you weren't seeing things you senile old bitch? You're certainly too old to be driving but I don't know if your brain is literally rotting yet."

She stopped in her tracks but didn't dare say a word back as I went about my shopping normally. I don't care who it is, man, woman, child, old husk, anyone who comes at me wrong is going to get the same treatment until they learn not to mess with me.

Nobody messy with Billy Badass.

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I've dealt with too many stupid racist people. What they say hurts but at least it lets you know quickly what kind of ignorant ass they are so they can be avoided in the future. Stay strong.


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OniRonin posted...

ad hominem

You are the one who wrote it not me. Plus, it has been explained to you that in order to teach classes such as the art history I taught you must discuss religion and how it influenced the artist and society as a whole. But then, you singled out just one religion so it seems that you have a bit more of a problem with that particular religion but lets ignore that and go broad with all religions.

Other classes will touch upon world religions, some more and some less. You just can't make it illegal to discuss these religions. That is a ridiculous idea that stifles learning about various cultures, ideas and world history.


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LinkPizza posted...

The ones who determine what kids study in school. The ones that schools all over the country listen to and trust with this decision. Those experts... Which is a much stronger argument than My dad said so or Because I said so like in your case...

You are arguing with someone who thinks it should be illegal to discuss jesus or the bible in the class roo. Just keep that in mind.

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Ogurisama posted...

Other - I used, but have tried in years
Edit, that also goes for somersault

Yeah, I am too afraid to try after all these years. I don't want to explain in the ER how I broke a leg.

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Jen0125 posted...

Gavin Rossdale cheated on her with their kids nanny too so he's not exactly a prize.

Ahh, I understand now.

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HornedLion posted...

Thats a downgrade from Gavin Rossdale.

https://youtu.be/AeDBlHOPCdI

So? Maybe looks doesn't mean as much to her as personality. Who knows what these people are really like in private.

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As a DMC fan this is a tough one. I'll just give you a run down of what I think of each, I can't pick for you.

1 was my first so it has that special place in my heart but it is dated. The atmosphere and mood is still the best to me tho.

2 Is skippable

3 was a great comeback after 2. Good story and gameplay.

4 was good. Good gameplay but has some disappointment after 3. There were corners cut.

DmC um....experimental reboot? It just didn't have that DMC something but the definitive edition was much better.

5 was good. A great return to the original franchise. Still enjoying it greatly but I return to all of the numbered ones a lot.


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Jen0125 posted...

She looks fine to me.

Agreed. She doesn't look as weird as some who have had surgery and the guy she is dating looks fairly normal.

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If it was illegal to discuss the Bible or Jesus in the art history class I taught that would leave out a sizable chunk of artwork and historical buildings along with discussing the lives of the artists and what influenced them. But hey, I guess by TC's opening statement all other world religions are OK.

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Not really but I know I have a physical illness. I am waiting to be driven to the ER at the moment.

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It is one of the just OK ones for me.

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OniRonin posted...

I don't live with my mom and I don't have any hot wheels. Not everyone is a little kid... I'm not sure why you'd assume I am? I'm actually almost 20.

https://youtu.be/KD8h_DfW_o4

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Right now all food. I've lost 11 lbs in the past month. Can't see a gastroenterologist until January 20th.

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Yes to many concerts but I have no interest in sports.

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Nope. Very ill with test being ran to see just what is going on with me. Pissed that it is screwing up my Christmas.

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Yeah, a Taco Bell is about 15 miles from my home but it is terrible.

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I have piles of crap all over Skyrim.

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Almost 18 for me. I lurked for a few months before I joined. Was active on LUE but didn't stay on it when it went private or whatever it is now. I was on PotD a lot, left for just gaming boards then when I came back I hardly recognized anybody.

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My son is red/green color blind. So was my father. I figured my male child would have a high chance of it since I was a carrier and unfortunately he is.

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wolfy42 posted...

Aha, see I thought so lol. If she was 26 I was like 11 or 12 or something. She was pretty hot, but totally seemed like an adult to me.

She looked a lot younger than he did. Maybe she played a convincing 18 year old but he didn't play a convincing 24 year old. He looked closer to his real age so I can understand.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

8 years is still a large age gap when one of the two is underage.

Ahh...Ok. I looked it up. She was 18 and he was 24 as the characters. Hmmm....when I was 18 I dated a 24 year old, plus, 18 isn't underage.

I thought he mean iri but I was surprised to see it still wasn't as big of a difference. She was 26 and he 34. He looked older and she younger.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

You mean the movie where the middle aged guy erotically dances with a 16 yer old? Never seen it.

I don't think either their real ages or movie ages were that different. Maybe you are thinking of another movie?

Anyway, it has been years.

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Yes!

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WastelandCowboy posted...

Self explanatory. Music. Discussion. Topic.

currently listening to Bauhaus song, Bela Lugosis Dead and I like it.

That song is on my rotation for painting, drawing or doing computer work to. I like Peter Murphy's other work also.

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Well, the poor feller tried.

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LinkPizza posted...

Unless the school told them to keep driving. Which is a very real possibility. Because they may not have another solution (driver or school). Not to mention, maybe a bus stop for one of the fighting kids is the next one. Which would also be a very possible solution to the problem.

The school cares. Especially private one. But public ones, as well. As the parents are kind of like the customers. And who says it's the right thing? Again, just because you think you're doing the right thing doesn't always mean you are. Driving for a few more minutes to get one of them off the bus could be a better solution than just stopping and letting the fight continue while you wait for someone to come out depending on how long that will take. We don't know everything that was going on. Only what we're told and can see on the video. The bus driver may have thought of what would be the best solution...

You can kick them off the bus for a while. Though, when that happened at my school, a kid got shot. Now, someone most likely would have been shot either way. It just turns out this kid did after being kicked off the bus and having to get his grandma or aunt or someone to take him to school early... But keeping kids on the opposite end of the bus might not work. As they could probably still move at some point. And it also depends on the kid. Maybe it's a kid that beats up everyone. Or a kid that's picked on by everyone.

It's different, though. Between things like city or rural areas. Or even between different cities. Buses in DC are way more dangerous than any buses I've ridden for any schools I've been to. You can't say that you have to act the same in every situation...

Probably true about city buses vs country but this wasn't any bigger than the school I taught in and had the same make up of being an unincorporated area, consolidated school.

Just read back over the policy from the school I taught and I remembered something that used to freak the kids out. The school can punish the student for something both to and from school the same as if they were on school grounds. I don't know how you could prove if the kid did not make it home before they did something wrong but this not only applied to bus riders but walkers too. I reread the policy and besides the bus rules it said the school can also kick you off the bus for misbehavior and you have to find your way to and from school.

This was the policy at our school and the surrounding schools so I am guessing it is pretty standard statewide for our public schools with some variances.

The kids are being charged. The boy should be removed from the bus. I know many will say I am for punishing the victim but I am more thinking about getting him away from them. The school may have to figure out another way to get him to school. I dunno.

This being on the national news is an embarrassment to the school. Schools don't like that kind of thing.

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Mead posted...

you clearly dont know much about what its like to ride a public school bus or be a bus driver in a city

Except that I've driven a public school bus and I've taught in public schools. Not in an inner city but I have been on some pretty angry bus rides. I know what I am supposed to do in those situations.

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LinkPizza posted...

I didn't say you did. It was just something that came up as a factor.

Yep. He's in a shitty situation. Not doing anything like he did gets people mad at him. Yet, if he tried to mediate, people might also be mad based on what he did and the outcome. As for it being on ongoing problem, he may have brought it up to the school. But if they had no real solution, then they may not have done anything.

That's true. But the school can still fire you depending on their own rules. Getting the CDL, you have certain rules to follow. I only know because when practicing for my CDL, we practice at the same area as the school buses. But that's for the license. The school still has their own rules to follow. While they most likely don't contradict the law or CDL rules, doing certain things a certain way can cause a lot of trouble. And could cost you your job... Depending on the school...

You are responsible for them. But that's why you have to choose the right thing to do. Just because something seems simple or like the right choice doesn't always mean it is. Especially if he has worked with those kids before. Or tried different things before... But getting hit is bad because you'd need another school bus drivers. And not even a regular bus driver can do it because the rules are more strict when it comes to school buses. Also, you're using adult logic. On a bus where people are going to be late, adult will resolve the problem. I've seen that many times at my job. Or heard of it, as well. But kids don't care, most of the time. If they're late, that's less school. They may care a little on the way home, but some don't. And in this case, they were all excited to watch and record, it seems... The only ones that would be mad about when they got home (or to the bus stop) would be the parents. Which would land the bus driver in hot water. And while moving them can help, there's possibility it won't. Like, they might bring the fight up there, which becomes an even more dangerous situation...

Then you follow the rules as you were told. Stop the bus, call the school. You don't just keep driving.

If the parents are mad because the kids were late, who cares? You did the right thing. Their little monsters didn't and yeah, I've dealt with enough of these parents to know that they think their children are entitled. That is why you follow your rules and the problem is theirs, not yours.

I've never seen it get bad enough for the school to tell the kids they had to find another means to get to school. I don't know if they can. Mostly it will be expulsion or alternative school. But, this kind of behavior needs to be stopped early on. Keep the kids who pick at each other at opposite ends of the bus.

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LinkPizza posted...

Maybe. But he may not get in trouble. Lots of things factor in here. Some bus drivers are older and wouldn't have been able to do much. And has to safely drive those kids back home afterwards, still. So if he got hurt trying to diffuse the situation, that would be bad. And he may have gotten in trouble for that. And he still may not have been able to break up the fight. Nor can he go around hitting kids... unless they start attacking him. They he can beat the little shits up enough to safely get away. Though, then there's a possible loss of job and some parents complaining, while other stand up for the driver. The school will look like the bad guy either way... And there's probably rules he has to follow... And he would need somewhere to safely pull over. So, lots of factors, I guess. And that's probably not even everything they would need to consider...

I didn't say anything about hitting the kids. I am not even a man or big so there is no way I could wade in swinging.

Edit: it also a "Damned if you do or damned if you don't" situation trying to break them up forcefully. I know physically I couldn't do it and I wouldn't because I would fear that I would become liable for some injury. BUT, when kids start arguing that is when you step in, not when they come to blows. There is another video floating around of these same two kids taken on a different day with the same kind of behavior from them both so it was an ongoing problem.

I just know what we are told while getting our CDL to drive a bus. The moment a child stands up on a bus we are supposed to tell them to sit. If they do not we stop.
We can pretty much stop anywhere since we have our flashing lights and arm to pull unless it is a bridge or train track ( we stop before we cross the tracks anyway and I still have the habit of doing it while driving my own car). It didn't seem like a bridge because there are trees outside the windows.

You are responsible for the kids no matter how awful they might be. I agree you could potentially get hit and I have no idea how to pull them apart but those are the steps we are told to do. That was the reason the moment a kid stood up I'd tell them to sit. We've had to stop the bus for rowdy kids. When you do that it makes the others mad because they are going to be late because of someone else's foolishness so the problem usually resolves quickly if you keep aware of the kids like you are supposed to do. Also, move one of them next to you.


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No major problems but I had an ear infection last week and had to take some strong antibiotics. Now the ear ache is gone but the meds killed the good flora in my tummy along with the bad. Gave me the poops! Eating live culture yogurt and taking probiotics until it runs its course. Heavy emphasis on the word "runs".

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I taught for many years. The bus driver is responsible for the student's safety to and from school and is supposed to stop the bus when things like this occur. He is supposed to try to diffuse the situation and move the offending child up to the front next to him. But again, this shouldn't have gone this far. Not only that, since it was such a severe fight he should have called the school and maybe the authorities. ( I believe the school wouldn't want him to though; schools like to downplay things like this). If you are close to the school then you return to the school when things calm down.

Students are not even supposed to stand up on the bus while it is moving. The busses have mirrors so the drive can clearly see to the back of the bus. He couldn't have been oblivious to that screeching and movement. If he was then he wasn't doing his job properly.

He kept driving for most of the fight. The minute they started getting into it he should have stopped and moved the boy up front.

I am not saying it is all his fault, the kids fighting were definitely in the wrong and should be punished but he was the adult in charge. The school will be asking him about it I bet.

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"When they go low, we go high". Wonderful words.

Violence isn't the answer to racial slurs, even though it hurts. You have to realize some people are ignorant and will never rise out of their upbringing.

I have heard awful racial things said about mixed race kids by people who don't know my family make up. It hurts. I have tried to teach my kids to use that as a marker, a way of identifying the kind of person to avoid and not to be.

Yeah, I know it is difficult but not letting a little turd get to you with words will frustrate him into a whining pout.

Beating someone over words just shows you are no better, if not worse, than he because you took it up to a level that gets you into deep trouble and makes the smug, racist think they are right.

I'm still pissed at the bus driver for not stopping this.

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Nope. This kind of violence is unacceptable and the bus driver should have stopped it before it got that far.

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I loved RDR and thought RDR2 would be great but I gave up because I found it tedious, and I was not wanting that to be my experience.

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The bus driver should have put a stop to it. I have seen another video from another day where he was being assaulted and was fighting back so it was an ongoing problem. The bus is just merrily going on in both videos so I would think someone should be losing their job.

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wolfy42 posted...

What comes after Z anyway? I mean if Z started in 97, then it's been over 20 years, so we should have a new gen already.....is it Gen A? Gen ~ or what?

Also they should have called Gen X, Gen Jen cause of all the Jennifers.

Yep and after that was Generation Ashley.

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Yep. Amazon makes it too easy.

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SaltyAndSweet posted...

Seems like a long time I think. I mean its just a hard piece of wood or plastic or whatever and a clip with maybe a spring

I wonder if theres workplaces where people are using clipboards that are like fifty years old but nobody knows it because its just a clipboard and nobody cares

Nobody cares

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http://www.cc.com/video-clips/plvv4v/comedy-central-presents-what-s-new--pussycat-

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Probably about 4 or 5. I'm not going to go count them. Just enough for whatever the situation calls for. My husband owns more than I do. He refuses to throw away sneakers he hasn't worn in years so they are hanging out in the back of the closet.

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Time's person of the year doesn't mean the best person of the year. Look at the list. It is more like people who are most talked about, shook things up and have influenced events that year, good or bad.

I'm not wild about how they choose and would have liked the protesters to be considered more than her but just like her whining, Time magazine means little.

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We had to take the phone away from Granny because she would call 911 over minor things. They sent a fire truck and ambulance for a backache! I explained she has Alzheimer's and told them I was getting rid of our home phone. The only reason I had it was for her to call her friends. Now the phone is gone, her friends are gone and I doubt she knows what a phone is.

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Ehhh.....I am a Christian and I don't say either one to people. I guess I am lazy or just don't get excited about things. But, whatever they say to me my response is "You too!" or something like that. Hell, it is well meaning. Why get your panties in a bunch?

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Deku_Link posted...

The Lion King original is my all time favorite. I also like The Fox and the Hound.

I can't decide but when Todd does his little howl in The Fox and the Hound Dog I think it is one of the most adorable moments in Disney movies.
https://youtu.be/JN9RkBUUA40

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I warm it up when it is cold. If it was just me I could do without that a little more but taking kids to school I want them warm. I even put a throw in the dryer to get it warm for her to cover up with since the heat doesn't get the backseat as warm as the front.

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